The dog responded by licking his hand, once, firmly, and then sitting back on his haunches as if to suggest that budgets were human inventions and loyalty did not require approval from a loan committee. Eli named him Ranger, partly because it sounded dignified and partly because he could not bring himself to call a creature that looked so unremarkable anything overly sentimental, and in that small act of naming, something shifted; the farmhouse felt less like a mausoleum and more like a place where decisions might still be made.
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